Post by Hit-Monkey, If You Weel on Jul 29, 2013 13:55:37 GMT -5

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 onward. The finale of the fifth season was the perfect end to that show. She died, left a legacy, and the other cast members had redeemed themselves in one fashion or another. Perfect way to end the show. Then the two shitty UPN seasons happened.

Post by Baldobomb-Jerusalem on Jul 29, 2013 14:36:49 GMT -5

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy suddenly has a sister Then they jumped that shark with another shark when they decided she was a magic key to another dimension that was just sort of weaved into reality. Honestly, much as I like Season Five, even by Buffy standards it was pretty ridiculous.

Degrassi: I dunno, somewhere between the original cast graduating and them deciding that someone had to become a big national star every f***ing season. Oh, and f***ing Mia.

at least season 5 was still good. I say season 6 was jumping way off the rails. there are about 2-3 good to great episodes mixed in with so much needlessly depressing dreck. it's like they forgot why people watched the show. classic example of "Cerebus Syndrome" (previously light-hearted work becomes serious to the point of detriment). season 7 tried but the damage was already done. and don't even get me started on the largely terrible Season 8 comics.

as for other shows that jumped:

Battlestar Galactica (reboot): is it possible for a show to jump right at the end? man that ending was terrible. people who complain about Mass Effect 3's original ending have clearly never seen this. the only thing it clarified was that the writers had been pulling the show out of their ass from day one. and my favorite character goes "poof" at the end for NO f***ING REASON and the writers fall back on lame "a wizard did it" cop-outs, complete with a ridiculous ham0fisted message that "it could happen here" which literally made me laugh. the stuff with Adama and the President was powerful stuff, but it's floating about in a river of bullshit.

Post by Juice on Jul 29, 2013 18:20:52 GMT -5

How I Met Your Mother- The Episode when it's revealed Lily and Marshall bet on their friends. Just ruined the show for me and I couldn't overlook the show's faults any longer.

As a huge fan of this show I agree on this, but it's not the only thing that's bothered me. I feel last season when Ted was still having feelings for Robin after the mid season break when he let her meet Barney on the roof was terrible.

Post by blackoutcreature on Jul 29, 2013 18:34:57 GMT -5

Hercules and Xena both fell apart after the Dahak storyline wrapped up. Hercules went back to its "reimagining Greek myths" formula which felt been there/done that by then, and Xena just became weird.

I know The Batman doesn't have the strongest of followings among Batman cartoons, but I was really enjoying it up until the final season (season five). Those team-up episodes were brutal to watch, and the guest heroes had almost nothing in the way of personalities.

The 90's X-Men cartoon pretty much lost all steam in the middle of season four. The Phalanx episodes in early season five were kinda cool, but otherwise it just felt like they were stretching to find new stories after mostly wrapping everything up in "Beyond Good and Evil".

A lot of people consider them a breath of fresh air on a tired franchise, but I just couldn't get into the "Red Sky" episodes that started in season eight of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. The show just changed too much from what I enjoyed about it.

It's hard to pick an exact moment when Smallville fell off the rails, although Lana's return in season eight would be my best guess. No matter how you look at it though the show definitely ran about two or three seasons too many.

For The Drew Carey Show, well Kate leaving definitely solidified it, although the show was slipping in quality before that.

NewsRadio - sadly the loss of Phil Hartman just hurt the chemistry between all the characters.

I honestly remember absolutely nothing about the Cosby Show after Cousin Pam showed up.

In the middle of its second season Andromeda stopped being an interesting and unique take on the space opera genre, and just became a Star Trek rip-off.

Post by paulbearer on Jul 29, 2013 22:11:21 GMT -5

90210 (I liked it but when Gina came along it felt a bit stale.....but then again like MWC it had aired a bazillion yrs)

Models Inc (they couldn't even make 2-3 seasons

Batman s3 (they added Batgirl but as Ward said : "it sank in uncreative quick sand". S2 had some misses too but was still a pretty good season albeit it had become routine with the cliffhangers. I wish it would've aired for 2 more seasons , maybe in s5 Ward would be too old though)

Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jul 29, 2013 23:04:37 GMT -5

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy suddenly has a sister Then they jumped that shark with another shark when they decided she was a magic key to another dimension that was just sort of weaved into reality. Honestly, much as I like Season Five, even by Buffy standards it was pretty ridiculous.

I actually thought they worked season 5 really well.

Buffy suddenly having a sister was a complete wtf moment at first but, once it was all explained, I thought it made sense and managed to work. I really enjoyed season 5, one of my favourites after whichever was the season with Faith and the Mayor.

Post by Compack on Jul 29, 2013 23:26:00 GMT -5

The thing I don't get about the Conway Twitty segments is I don't understand how it's funny. I know Seth MacFarlane puts them in just because the fans hate it, which is cool and all, but where's the joke?

Post by Bravo Echo November on Jul 30, 2013 0:31:50 GMT -5

Scrubs was running on fumes but they were able to assemble an incredible finale to wrap up JD's time at Sacred Heart... except not really. Season 9 comes around and JD stays around for a few episodes to "pass the torch" of sorts to the new interns who were uninteresting IMO.

It's like wishing your friend goodbye in an emotional embrace, they drive off, you go home, then they pull up in your driveway because they forgot something. If Bill Lawrence ended the series with S8 it would have been an incredible end, but it wasn't the case.

Post by Colt is Ratchet on Jul 30, 2013 3:41:27 GMT -5

Angel: Season 4, Cordy disappeared then returned, then slept with Angel's son, then was evil, then she never truly returned oh and she's dead now... They handled her demonizing so well in season 3, then fudged it all up. Season 5 redeemed the show, but not one of the most lovable characters

Post by Cole on Jul 30, 2013 3:48:13 GMT -5

The Simpsons- The Principal and the Pauper.

It's not that I don't enjoy anything after this, but that just killed what made the series special off after this. A totally useless, shit episode, not even funny and then with a chance to maybe make Skinner more dynamic or something, just literally said, on air, this never happened. All is the same.

Shit episode, and only one person on planet Earth apparently liked, the writer, Ken Keeler. The staff all hated it, how it made it to air, who knows?

Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer on February 26th 1994. He was 32 years old

Post by CATCH_US Just Wanna Know on Jul 30, 2013 4:27:09 GMT -5

Scrubs was running on fumes but they were able to assemble an incredible finale to wrap up JD's time at Sacred Heart... except not really. Season 9 comes around and JD stays around for a few episodes to "pass the torch" of sorts to the new interns who were uninteresting IMO.

It's like wishing your friend goodbye in an emotional embrace, they drive off, you go home, then they pull up in your driveway because they forgot something. If Bill Lawrence ended the series with S8 it would have been an incredible end, but it wasn't the case.

As far as I'm concerned, Season 8 WAS the finale. Season 9 is best looked at as a spin-off series that just happens to have the same name. I think it was actually intended to be a Spin-off. The new characters were actually kind of cool and entertaining. It's just that the show wasn't Scrubs. I do believe that if the show with the new cast were given a new name, it might've been better received and would've lasted longer than it did.